Tideway is targeting completion of the £4.2 billion Thames Tideway Tunnel sewer two years earler than planned.
Andy Mitchell, CEO of Tideway, has said the company’s biggest challenge now is to see whether it can commit to its aspiration of reducing the delivery timetable for Tideway by up to two years.
This would see Tideway starting on site six months early, starting tunnelling a year early and then taking another year off the commissioning.
Main works preliminary construction is currently scheduled to begin in 2016, followed by the start of tunnelling in 2017, secondary lining in 2019 and tunnelling completion in 2021. Systems commissioning is then scheduled for 2022 with all works due to be completed in 2023.
Emphasising that Tideway was not “talking about cutting corners, or rushing the job”, Andy Mitchell said the company believed it could start earlier than planned, and could overlap more by bringing in additional resources. Describing the plan as a radical change in the programme, he said:
“If you have that radical ambition like we do, there is only one time to call it – and that is now.”
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